2.Hospital.
"Hospital" means an acute care health care facility with permanent inpatient beds
planned, organized, operated and maintained to offer for a continuing period of time
facilities and services for the diagnosis and treatment of illness, injury and deformity;
with a governing board, and an organized medical staff, offering continuous 24-hour
professional nursing care; with a plan to provide emergency treatment 24 hours a day
and including other services as defined in the "Regulations for Licensure of General
and Specialty Hospitals in the State of Maine," as amended; and that is licensed under
Title 22, chapter 405 as a general hospital, specialty hospital or critical access
hospital. For purposes of this chapter, "hospital" does not include a nursing home
or a publicly owned specialty hospital.

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2001, c. 714, Pt. NN, §2 (NEW)
.]

3.Inpatient hospital services.
"Inpatient hospital services" means services that are furnished in a hospital by
or under the direction of a physician or a dentist for the care and treatment of an
inpatient.

5.Publicly owned specialty hospital.
"Publicly owned specialty hospital" means a publicly owned hospital that is primarily
engaged in providing psychiatric services for the diagnosis, treatment and care of
persons with mental illness and that is licensed as a specialty hospital by the Department
of Health and Human Services.